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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
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Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
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The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
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For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
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Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'
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I am whatever was, or is, or will be and my veil no mortal ever took up.
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
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Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
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The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves
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Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. We are the only women who raise men, the Spartan lady replied.
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The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.
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To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, My nobility, said he, begins in me, but yours ends in you.
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Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
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